Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jürgen, Juergen Schmidt wrote (12-8-2009 7:25) The FLatXML filter is as example part of the SDK since years. I don't know exactly and have to check it but i assume it is part since the beginning of the SDK. [...] And that was when? May 2003 (see the old cvs repo) when i

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jürgen, Juergen Schmidt wrote (12-8-2009 7:25) The FLatXML filter is as example part of the SDK since years. I don't know exactly and have to check it but i assume it is part since the beginning of the SDK. [...] And that was when? Cor -- Cor Nouws - nl.OpenOffice.org marketing contact

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Alex Fisher wrote: See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539 Does something as prior art exist ?! :-) I took a look at the original MS application (downloaded the PDF from the Patent Office) several years ago. there was also quite a bit of discussion at the time on sever

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Cristian Driga
Hi all, More analysis on xmltoday.org... "Will Oracle, now repository of Sun's intellectual property, find itself having to suppress Open Office because the storage formats (ISO standards all) are now in violation of Microsoft's patents?" http://www.xmltoday.org/content/microsoft-patents-xml

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Fisher
> See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539 > > Does something as prior art exist ?! :-) I took a look at the original MS application (downloaded the PDF from the Patent Office) several years ago. there was also quite a bit of discussion at the time on several lists. There

Re: [marketing] Introduction to the list

2009-08-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Octave, My name is Octave. Today I joined in the marketing team. I want to enjoy here and stay here in order to make Open Office available and enjoyable to everyone. welcome to the list, and glad to have you on board! I've just granted you observer status in the marketing project. Enjoy! ;

[marketing] [Fwd: [ux-user interface] Hi, I found redoffice have a good ui design]

2009-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Nice show :-) Originele bericht Datum: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 10:13:47 +1000 Van:jie luo Antwoord-naar: u...@ux.openoffice.org Redoffice is a Chinese office suite based on OpenOffice.org which focus on UI design and localization, e.g. templates ( I think) I think, most people

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Malte Timmermann
I already thought that this sounds to be very similar to our "FlatXML" format. One difference is that our FlatXML IMHO can't keep all information that the ODF zip storage can contain. Don't remember what, maybe doc specific configuration? Not sure. For sure we can't digitally sign such documents.

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Andy
Cor Nouws wrote: See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539 Does something as prior art exist ?! :-) Cor, I am no lawyer so I can not say, but I do believe that your correct. The Free Software Foundation should be interested in this. The writing even mentions the books

[marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-329645.html?tag=nl.e539 Does something as prior art exist ?! :-) -- Cor Nouws - nl.OpenOffice.org marketing contact Ontwikkelaar? Join! http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html Gevoel niet vrij te zijn? Zie www.nieuwsteversie.nl --

[marketing] Introduction to the list

2009-08-11 Thread Octave Bory-Bert
Hi everyone ! My name is Octave. Today I joined in the marketing team. I want to enjoy here and stay here in order to make Open Office available and enjoyable to everyone. I’m currently doing a MSc in strategic marketing in a UK university. I’m found of new tech and I’ve been using open source

Re: [marketing] OOo as security upgrade

2009-08-11 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi, some people already commented on this while I was on vacation, and especially Thorsten Behrens already made clear that OOo is not free from such issues. OOo was already quite often affected by file format issues, see http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html. And it's not only about b

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
John McCreesh wrote (5-8-2009 9:08) On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: [snip] I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. It is something like vegetarianism. I hadn't thought of it like that befo